Hi Milan, Milan Zamazal wrote: >>>>>> "ND" == Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > > ND> The problem with the required final trailing dot (if you want to > ND> leave out the year) is that it is not obvious - at least to me: > ND> the equivalent ISO would be "-03-04" and the equivalent American > ND> would be "3/4/" which look horrible - however, I don't know what > ND> the general practice is in Europe. > > The dots are not separators, they mark ordinal numbers. And at least > here in Czech Republic the correct typeset form is e.g. "4. 3. 2011" > although the compact form "4.3.2011" is often used.
I don't think we have a real European format: in Belgium, a date is 16/03/2011, or 16/3/2011 for the sixteenth of March. So, here, the common separator is the dash, but the order is well day/month/year... Best regards, Seb -- Sébastien Vauban
